Project Leader (Mechanical Engineering)

Job Title Project Leader (Mechanical Engineering)

Location: Newton, Massachusetts, United States

Duration: Full Time Role

Job Description:

Planning and management of development and application projects with focus on the mechanical part (mechanical domain) of electric drive systems or sub-systems for electrified vehicles.

Responsible for the implementation of the mechanical part of the technical development programme (engineering) in line with timing, costs, quality and (customer) specifications.

Cross-component and cross-domain coordination of the Client divisions, suppliers and the engineering interface to the customer for the mechanical content.

Responsibilities:

• Independent planning and management of mechanical development projects and electric
• drive (sub)systems from the concept phase to series production readiness, taking into
• account the CAPM, Automotive SPICE and DES development processes.

Technical support in project acquisition:

• Examination of development results for patentability and support of patent applications
• Preparation, regular review and maintenance of development, activity and time plans as
• well as resource and project cost planning for own projects or in coordination with the
• higher-level overall programme management for system programmes
• Planning, controlling, tracking and reporting of project efforts (workload) and project
• resources.
• Initiation and monitoring of cost reduction measures (VA/VE)
• Regular reporting / presentation of the development progress and its results as well as, if
• necessary, presentation of problem-solving analyses and their proposed solutions
• internally as well as to the customer.
• Technical management of international development teams, including external resources
• Collaboration in the analysis of customer complaints and in the initiation of corrective
• measures to avoid future complaints and the resulting measures for product improvement
• (ISO 26262, FMEA)
• Coordinating resources with other engineering functions (e.g. design, test, prototyping),
• also with regard to priorities
• Coordination of requirements, capacities (internal & external) and costs for the development and acceptance tests to be carried out. Clarification of priority conflicts.

Tools

• Microsoft Office Standard Tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Microsoft Project / Planisware / Easy Redmine
• Basic CAD skills (CreoView or similar)
• IQ-RM/APIS (FMEA Tool)
• Ideally PTC (Integrity Lifecycle Manager + Source) / Windchill RV&S
• Ideally PTC Windchill
• Ideally ReqMan
• Ideally IPM

Preferred skills

• 5 years' experience in the automotive industry, preferably in project management for
• electric drive systems or transmission development.
• Ideally 1 year of experience in requirement engineering.
• Ideally 1 year experience supporting software and systems engineering
• Project management practice experience; ideally proof of experience according to IPMA
• Level D or higher, PMI or similar.